Razing and redeveloping Gaza was always the plan.

At the United Nations General Assembly on September 26, 2025, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, citing the resolve of his soldiers, declared: “That is why Israel must finish the job, and that is why we want to do so as fast as possible.” The same day, more than 60 Palestinians were killed across Gaza by the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF), and Médecins Sans Frontières was forced to suspend its operations in Gaza City because of the ongoing offensive. The “job” he’s referring to is, of course, the annihilation of Palestine and its people; the present phase, including the obliteration of Gaza and concomitant theft of land and life throughout the West Bank. On December 30, 2025, "Israel" announced the operations of more than two dozen humanitarian organizations, including Médecins Sans Frontières and Medical Aid for Palestinians UK, would be suspended across Gaza.

Let there be no doubt: this genocide is ongoing.

On the one hand, what’s new about that? After all, the actions of Netanyahu’s regime fit neatly alongside more than 70 years of resource theft and carceral capture across Palestine. This current phase is, perhaps, most identifiable by the continued flow of US, UK, and EU weapons to the IOF. In these last 27 months, at least 200,000 tonnes of explosives were deployed across Gaza, with roughly 70,000 tonnes failing to detonate. These scorched-earth operations that poison and maim are clearing the way for a global tangle of states and stakeholders, all salivating to profit from not only weapons and surveillance testing and manufacturing, but from real-estate speculation and settlement expansion.¹  We’re witnessing a land grab of Palestine at a rapid pace, as facilitated by a near-planetary slew of collaborators bent on capturing oil reserves and expediting the erasure of Indigenous society and its history to redevelop the region for maximal profit.

Genociding for Gaza's gas

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) "reported impact snapshot", 81% of all structures in Gaza are destroyed or damaged, with 77% of the total road network damaged. This data, as of October 11, 2025, and July 8, 2025, respectively, is an undeniable undercount, given the IOF’s sustained air and artillery attacks and direct shootings since the beginning of the so-called “ceasefire” on October 10, 2025. A region deemed “unlivable” in 2018 due to contamination and collapse…how could it be described today? Much has been written of the sumud (resilience) of the people of Gaza, but we must not allow this extraordinary resilience to obscure the truth: it is being razed to the ground to pave the way for the empire’s latest project, "redevelopment", according to shareholders’ whims, and the assurance of unfettered flows of capital. This is a project spearheaded by the United States.

It is easy to be overwhelmed by the white noise of the White House. How could your mind fail to be scrambled when presented with the "Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) Trust?" Glibly referred to as the 'Gaza Riviera' plan, each of its 38 pages reveals a different horror, confirming the black heart of the US-led multi-lateral plans for custodianship of the territory.

A prospectus was leaked to the Washington Post in August 2025, and while each detail demands unpacking, such as the projected five-year cleanup of all unexploded ordnance,² and deep port construction to exploit the natural gas reserves of the Gaza Marine, we must understand the purloining of Palestine as historically, as through today, as an insatiable lust for oil. As Rafeef Ziadah clarifies:

The proposal imagined Gaza not as a territory with a people and political rights, but as a logistics hub folded into the India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), the transport, energy, and data corridor linking South Asia, the Gulf, and Europe, via "Israel", launched in 2023. In the plan’s diagrams, Gaza was to become a node of this east-west trade artery, its coastline and land rezoned for ports, pipelines, and digital cables.

While the GREAT Trust lauds "a New Abrahamic Architecture," we can read these slop-mock-ups as a foreshadowing of pipelines and plunder. The IMEC schematic and its ‘bridge to the Mediterranean depicts “major ports” off Palestine’s coasts, the present sites of the Leviathan and Tamar oil fields (operated by Chevron (39.66%) and Chevron Mediterranean Limited, respectively), where the extraction and export of gas reinforces "Israel’s" colonial domination and extortion, exacerbating Palestinian dispossession.

We can map the maneuvers of urbicide (and every -cide in Gaza), land theft, and revisioning international law if we follow the cartographies of oil drilling, pipeline construction, and where/how this gas is used; the global fossil capitalist order is circling Gaza, systemically emptying it ahead of refashioning the land, sky and sea solely in its interests.

The Trust's words sound banal, proposing a "US-led multi-lateral custodianship leading to a reformed Palestinian self-governance", but what's at stake is anything but. The lives and livelihoods of millions of Palestinians are in the hands of these rapacious entities, but so is the very sovereignty and health of the land and the sea.

An ill-formatted header in the plan: “Along with generating ~$185B in revenue for industry in the first 10 years, expect plan to increase value of Gaza to ~$324B from $0 today” posits US custodianship of Gaza as generating worth, vis a vis stakeholder returns, from a territory presently deemed worthless…all fixating on investment in housing, ‘advanced manufacturing’ and deep port construction.

Stakeholders, for example, like NewMedEnergy, which controls 45.34% of the Leviathan Reservoir, the largest in the Mediterranean basin and a key source of energy for "Israel", Egypt, and Jordan. NewMedEnergy is a subsidiary of Delek Group, an Israeli holding conglomerate ³ worth over $5 billion USD that also supplies fuel to the IOF and Israel police. Here, the settler colonial medusa feeds itself.

The owner of Delek Group is Yitzhak Tshuva, a Libyan-born billionaire businessman whose family settled in Netanya prior to his move to the United States in 1988. The ranks of his friends included Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, as well as Ted Arison, the Israeli-American founder of Carnival and Norwegian Cruise Lines, and whose Arison Investments owns the controlling shares of Bank Hapoalim. In 1992, Tshuva founded El-Ad Group, whose luxury real-estate portfolio in the United States includes the Plaza Hotel in New York City, once owned by Donald Trump, which El-Ad purchased in 2004 for $675 million from Saudi investors. The offshore reserves of Tamar 1, Dalit Tanin, Dolphin, Mari-B (currently decommissioned), Noa (largely shut-in), and Aphrodite Reservoir (forthcoming) in Palestine and Cyprus not only fuel the IOF and settlement expansion across the region, but these trillions of cubic meters of gas largely finance the bastardization of cities across North America, too. As the Energy Embargo for Palestine magisterially summed:

It becomes paramount to follow the energy supply chains from the point of extraction to their point of use in Israeli military vehicles. If we understand that “[weapons manufacturers] are the fists of US imperialism, just as logistics companies are its sinews,” then energy corporations provide this death machine its oxygen.”

Also worth flagging in the GREAT plan is the proposed creation of the “Gaza Land Trust,” whereby more than 30% of Palestinian land in Gaza would be ‘leased’ to the trust for 25-99 years (with “>$300B asset value with self-generating revenue streams) alongside a blockchain registry “for land and tokenization to enhance liquidity.” The “Accelerating Reconstruction: Voluntary Relocation Programs” section whereby Palestinians in Gaza would be faced with either institutionalized squalor in planned cities (temporary housing, aka "hardened structures” preceding “permanent residential housing” with an allocated 323 sq ft. per person), or a USD $5,000/person “relocation package” with subsidies to leave to another country. This is touted as “generous voluntary relocation packages” in the plan, mass expulsion and dispossession as ‘postwar development.’

We must read this as a continuation not just of the 1948 Nakba, but of moments like the 1830 Indian Removal Act, the 1887 Dawes Severalty Act where “tribal land was to be broken down into individual allotments whose proprietors could eventually sell them to White People,” the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act and the Indian Relocation Act of 1956 as part of “Indian termination policies” between 1940 and 1960. These mass assimilation efforts by colonizers offered paltry sums, if anything, to Indigenous communities across North America as a heist of their land and life. Through the present day, programs like the Biden administration’s “Bipartisan Infrastructure Law”, providing over $460 million to the Bureau of Indian Affairs over several years, promote "Voluntary Community-Driven Relocation" with incentives to soften the blows of state-led elimination campaigns and expropriation.

The only breed that measures housing…life…in such exacting dimensions and cents are Airbnb hosts, surveyors, and venture capitalists; the sort of folks who evaluate their prey, obsessed with return on investment.

And so we are left with no doubt about the shape and nature of extractive genocidal activity nestled in these proposals; the "Gaza-Arish-Sderot Special Economic Zone,” (establishing free trade to Europe, GCC and the US) along with the 10 ‘mega projects’ like the MBS Ring, MBZ Central Highway, Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone, American Data Safe Haven, and Abrahamic Infrastructure Corridor are new headers compounding decades of dispossession, brute displacement and ecocide dating from the British Mandate era, now brazenly rearing its hydra in the boardroom.

In many ways, the Gaza Riviera agenda is a redux of the 2020 “Peace to Prosperity” plan, released during Trump’s first term. As outlined in the plan, any aid, redevelopment…any strides towards ‘peace’ (by the United States’ definition) hinges on the full demilitarization of Palestinians in Gaza, and any building projects/infrastructural repair are “subject to the satisfaction of the State of Israel’s security.” The astounding criteria of this document further:

The State of Palestine will not have the right to forge military, intelligence, or security agreements with any state or organization that adversely affect the Israeli occupation entity's security, as determined by the entity. The State of Palestine will not be able to develop military or paramilitary capabilities inside or outside of the State of Palestine. A demilitarized State of Palestine will be prohibited from possessing capabilities that can threaten the occupation entity including: weapons systems such as combat aircraft (manned and unmanned); heavy armored vehicles; mines; missiles; rockets; heavy machine guns; laser/radiating weapons; anti-air; anti-armor; anti-ship; military intelligence; offensive cyber and electronic warfare capabilities; production facilities and procurement mechanisms for weapons systems; military infrastructure and training facilities; or any weapons of mass destruction. Any expansion of Palestinian security capabilities beyond those existing on the date this Vision is released shall be subject to agreement with the Israeli entity.

This is echoed in the Trump administration’s “20-point Plan,” released in October 2025 ahead of the so-called ceasefire: “1. Gaza will be a deradicalised terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbours.”

In the "Board of Peace" charter signing ceremony on Thursday, January 22, 2026, in Davos, Switzerland, Kushner reiterated how their version of “peace” is contingent on the simultaneous cessation of Palestinian resistance to occupation and buy-ins by the billionaire class:

"Obviously, we’re working very closely with the Israelis to figure out a way to de-escalation, and the next phase is working with Hamas on demilitarisation,” Kushner said. “Without security, nobody’s going to make investments, nobody’s gonna come build there. We need investments in order to start giving jobs,” he said.

Unsurprisingly, militarization and surveillance are elemental to the dynamics of extraction and exploitation. Palestinian resistance against their exterminators is, on the world stage, deemed illegitimate and must be obliterated to not obstruct the speed and scope of this thievery. As Al Haq synthesizes, the signing of the charter and forthcoming moves by the "Board of Peace" "advances imperial, capitalist, neocolonial interests at the expense of the Palestinian people, their inalienable rights, and future existence.”

An entire section in the 20-point plan’s framework on “Unleashing the Economic Potential” insists on ‘opening the West Bank and Gaza to regional and global markets,’ and includes staged initiatives for predatory grants and grant equity funding, concessional financing, disbursement of funds by tranche, and public-private strategies to lure foreign investment to the region and open up new channels for private sector growth. “Peace to Prosperity” summarizes its aims to “utilize an implementation mechanism analogous to that of the Marshall Plan,” but maybe more concisely, this vampiric vision seeks to turn Gaza into a staging point for transport, logistics, and resource wrenching, while further stripping the land and its people of any claims to actual sovereignty with the Right of Return and self-determination.

On the very same page that explicates how the majority of Gaza’s hospitals and clinics are nonfunctional (leading to polio and other communicable disease outbreaks, amongst innumerable other horrors) and that over 80% of Gaza’s school-aged children do not have consistent access to classroom spaces, the World Bank Economic Monitoring Report (September 2025) encourages ‘private sector dynamism and job creation’ as necessary to Gaza’s recovery.⁴

The United States mandate

These slideshows and projects are an outgrowth of normalization efforts that nullify, if not routinize, ongoing barbaric violence against Palestinians and their land to manufacture consent for necro-imperial aims. Any “peace” operation, as crafted by colluders, aims to facilitate resource siphoning and capital accumulation, continuously squeezing the most vulnerable while further lining magnates’ pockets. The purposefully vague language—circulated as ‘classified’, or not- builds out the grey areas where billions of dollars of ‘securitization’ and ‘defense’ contracts will fill holes. Point five of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803 (2025), adopted on November 17, 2025 (13-00-2 vote), while loaded with seemingly vacuous nothings, contains plentitudes:

Understands that the operational entities referred to in paragraph 4 above will operate under the transitional authority and oversight of the BoP and are to be funded through voluntary contributions from donors, BoP funding vehicles, and governments. 

The aspirational language, cloaking the colonial power structures of ‘transitional’ governing bodies, codifies this latest chapter of occupation until (at least) December 31, 2027, when the Security Council may renew its mandate. Also loaded in this resolution is endorsement for the establishment of a ‘temporary’ International Stabilization Force (ISF) tasked with the securitization of Gaza’s borders, its stabilization and demilitarization, and "the destruction and prevention of rebuilding of the military, terror, and offensive infrastructure, as well as the permanent decommissioning of weapons from non-state armed groups."

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The ISF was largely dormant, as the genocides raged on, in part due to vacillating levels of commitment and interest by signatories, until a formal announcement from the White House on January 16, 2026: "Trump’s Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict." As actual, binding resolution dragged its feet, stalled progress means the persistent re-drawing of Gaza’s “post”-genocide borders:

As the ISF establishes control and stability, the Israeli Occupations Forces (IOF) will withdraw from the Gaza Strip based on standards, milestones, and timeframes linked to demilitarization that will be agreed between the IOF, ISF, the guarantors, and the United States, save for a security perimeter presence that will remain until Gaza is properly secure from any resurgent terror threat.

Spear through the jargon: a security perimeter presence is the further fortification of the world’s largest concentration camp; the indefinite closure of Gaza’s land, air, and maritime borders on the IOF’s terms, which can be traced to the Naksa of 1967.

Despite a “Board of Peace” responsible for overseeing and coordinating reconstruction, Trump appointing himself at the helm, the ISF and its umbrella Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict (CPEGC) is no peace keeping venture; it defies "binding legal decisions and advisory opinions, authoritative statements of international law, decided by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) between 2024 and 2025". As of January 16, 2026, Maj. Gen. Jasper Jeffers, special operations commander for US Central Command (CENTCOM), whose combat and operational deployments include Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Resolute Support, is appointed as Commander for the ISF. An earlier candidate to spearhead the endeavor was former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The architects in the warehouse 

The deliberate erasure of Palestinian life is the modus operandi of "Israel" and its bedfellows, and to date, any process selling "peace" is signposting for the next intensified wave of occupation. "Israel’s" 'disengagement' from Gaza in 2005, as dictated by ‘the bulldozer’ Ariel Sharon and his cohort of éminence grise, was as contentious across the political spectrum as it was abominably conceived. And in the years immediately following disengagement, as the Second Intifada waged on, Gaza was effectively sealed shut with a world-ending blockade, better enabling Operation Cast Lead, Operation Pillar of Defense, Operation Protective Edge, and the gamut of bombings, snipings, and kidnappings in the moments between. "Israel" began more rapidly encouraging its citizens to move into the occupied territories with financial incentives and military protection, with the blessing of United Nations Security Council Resolution 242.

Atop these foundations of pillage, it’s no wonder that the Tony Blair Institute (TBI),⁸ headed by its namesake ^9, helps lead the charge to complete the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, bestowing upon itself “supreme strategic and political authority” to formulate its future. The plan, developed by stakeholders and modelled by Boston Consulting Group, was drafted by former CIA paramilitary officer Phil Reilly, among others. Its highest-level governing council (read: those tasked to complete the razing and rebuilding of Gaza) envisages an unabashed oligopoly; Marc Rowan (Apollo Global Management asset firm, AUM $840 billion USD), Naguib Sawiris (scion of Egypt's wealthiest family), and Aryeh Lightstone (CEO of "Abraham Accords" Peace Institute and Senior Advisor to US Ambassador to "Israel" David Friedman from 2017-2021) all on deck as executive members. The document is a compilation of ghosts of genocides past; ‘comparative benchmarks’ of cost assumptions in TBI’s Gaza International Transitional Authority (GITA) Institutional Structure were derived from UNMIK (Kosovo), UNTAET (East Timor), and other ‘transitional administrations’ as well as World Bank data.

Most of these conspirators appear in the latest iteration (January 16, 2026) of appointed members tasked with “ending the conflict,” as shared by the Trump administration. Rowan and Blair will join Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, Ajay Banga (President of the World Bank Group and former chairman of Mastercard and Exor), Robert Gabriel (former assistant to Stephen Miller and US Deputy National Security Advisor), and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the “National Committee for the Administration of Gaza.” Several of these blokes double-dip on the “Gaza Executive Board,” alongside Egyptian intelligence chief General Hassan Rashad and Cypriot-Israeli billionaire Yakir Gabay.¹⁰ This cocktail of capitalists also includes Emirati politicians, Egyptian intelligence officers, and top Qatari officials, all with massive stakes in overhauling Gaza to boost their revenue.

It’s no surprise, then, that not only property magnates are invited into this blank-cheque banquet; so too are software firms and 'human capital management' groups such as Oracle Corporation, whose founder Larry Ellison is mates with Tony Blair and Benjamin Netanyahu. Ellison donates hundreds of millions to TBI and millions more to the IOF and declares the company’s devotion to the project of "Israel" as “unequivocal,” operating bomb-proof subterranean data centers beneath occupied al-Quds, with more centers on the horizon. According to the BDS company complicity profile, “In November 2023, Oracle led an initiative to elevate pro-Israel content on TikTok and Twitter in collaboration with Israeli development ministries to "help Israel in the battle for global public opinion during this conflict." It was announced on January 23, 2026, that Oracle and a group of investors agreed to a $14 billion deal for control over TikTok. How will the platform, now owned by the same man who gushes his adoration for "Israel", twist the truth of this genocide, this epoch of occupation, even further?

This is only one instance of tech companies denying and obfuscating the truth about Palestine while concurrently ravaging its fragile ecology under the guise of modernization.

Redeveloping Gaza, according to warmongers, then, is predicated on fashioning "technocratic" transitional governance, obsessed with the disarmament of Hamas (put otherwise: forcibly removing any boundaries to and resistance against a US-led coalition of thieves):

The GITA board would supervise a "Gaza Investment Promotion and Economic Development Authority (GIPEDA)," a "commercially-driven authority" responsible for eking out a profit out of every economic activity, "including housing, infrastructure, and industrial development.” In short, it is a Gaza run solely according to investor profit and return on investment, rather than national and communal interests.

TBI’s blueprint was leaked less than two weeks before Trump’s “20 Point Plan”. This was further emphasized ad nauseam by Rubio on December 19, 2025:

So that is why we are in such a hurry, and I say as a priority, to get to this point where we have the stabilization force in place overseen by the "Board of Peace" and ultimately a Palestinian technocratic entity that can increase [sic] its capability to provide governance. The stronger they are, the weaker Hamas will be in terms of threatening "Israel", and I think the more security "Israel" should feel, and the less need for some of these things to happen.

An additional 'stabilization force' that Rubio elides is CENTCOM’s Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC), a new military base opened on October 17, 2025 that enlists at least 200 US service members and accomplices from around 50 countries "with expertise in transportation, planning, security, logistics, and engineering" under the leadership of Lt. Gen. Patrick Frank, commander of US Army Central (ARCENT). Excavating intentions from the pits of hasbara outlets like The Jerusalem Post, we can more clearly see the CMCC’s purpose: "In an unassuming warehouse on a quiet back street of an industrial park in the Israeli town of Kiryat Gat, the fate of some two million Gazans is being mapped out." This "quiet back street" is in Kiryat Gat, an illegal settlement on the ruins of Iraq al-Manshiyya and al-Faluja, Palestine, approximately 30 kilometers from Gaza, and an epicenter of technology research and development, where multinational corporations such as Intel and HP add to the matrix of surveillance, AI and weapons manufacturing comprising the so-called 'Start Up Nation' and 'Silicon Wadi' across the occupied territory.

Images circulating of CMCC showcase extravagant screens and maps being closely monitored by laser-focused attendants in camouflage; patches on their sleeves bear the flags of France, Canada, Spain, and elsewhere, parading a cooperative multinationalism in the interest of ‘peace,’ though a closer reading means a world conspiring against Palestinian sovereignty. A CENTCOM-led summit on December 16, 2025, in Doha, Qatar, centered on recruiting troop pledges to Gaza, laying bare CMCC’s true role: yet another US garrison in West Asia, despite spokesman Captain Tim Hawkins November 2025 assertion: "To be clear, no US troops will be deployed into Gaza. Any reporting to the contrary is false." This is a ‘no boots on the ground’ distortion we’ve heard before, whether it's the Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore pier or UG Solutions’s use of Private Military Contractors (PMCs) for the now-defunct Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). The modus operandi of CMCC and any iteration of ISF is apparent: the next stages of this genocide are to prepare the territory for an influx of international private enterprise and a parasitic real estate boom. The thesis, since the Nakba, but reiterated bluntly on January 2, 2026, "Culture Minister Miki Zohar, of the ruling Likud party, says Gaza belongs to Israel, and [the] Palestinians in the territory are 'guests' whom Israel is merely allowing to live there for now."

What marauds as peace?

The jaw-droppingly brash and violent redevelopment plans, cloaked as “peace” and “stability,” are cogs in the corporate machinery sustaining the occupation of Palestine. Real estate companies are “making an explicit appeal to wartime patriotism, leading with the conflict as a selling point and a reason to invest,” signaling, as is the spine of American empire, that war is great for the bottom line; the takeaway is that bombing is business is booming.

This is not a missive that began October 7, 2023, rather, as we detangle this web of billionaire stakeholders salivating for their claim to “postwar Gaza,” there’s an explicit through-line from the massive armament and operations of the Suez Crisis (1956) and groundwork laid for Israel’s violent accumulation by dispossession during the Naksa (1967). Protecting and ever-expanding crude oil supply chains are the core of colonial calculations—the steady supply of cheap oil is what powers the Caterpillar D9 bulldozers ruining this earth, ever-prepping for “redevelopment.” This imperative, and all of the ruthlessness it contains, is greased by the well-over $174 billion in ‘aid’ from the United States to "Israel". ¹¹

The very same day, the White House announced the Executive Committee members of the "Board of Peace" (January 16, 2026), Chevron shared its "Final Investment Decision" on Leviathan gas expansion:

"Our decision to invest in the expansion of Leviathan’s production capacity reflects our confidence in the future of energy in the region. Pragmatic US and regional energy policies are helping to strengthen energy security across the Eastern Mediterranean and foster an environment that encourages investment in the Middle East and globally." The Leviathan expansion project is expected to come online towards the end of this decade.

The project includes drilling three additional offshore wells, adding additional subsea infrastructure, and enhancing the treatment facilities on the Leviathan production platform as we progress towards increasing total gas delivery to Israel and the region to approximately 21 billion cubic meters (BCM) annually from the Leviathan reservoir.

The statement, coming from Houston, Texas, also included: “This milestone demonstrates our ongoing commitment to partner with the State of Israel to develop natural gas resources and provide essential energy to millions of people in Israel, Egypt and Jordan,” said Jack Baker, managing director of Chevron’s Eastern Mediterranean region.” Presumably, “subsea infrastructure” is their quasi-covert term for pipeline; this decades-long, multistage and multibillion dollar endeavor is not unlike petro-colonial projects worldwide. As AFSC details, “In 2023, Chevron made an estimated $1.5 billion in revenue from Tamar¹² and Leviathan gas sales alone, mostly from exports to Egypt and Jordan…Between 2021 and December 2024, Chevron spent nearly $28.5 million on lobbying the U.S. government, including on energy issues related to Israel.”

"Israel" not only profits from the ongoing massacre of Palestinians and their land, most acutely demonstrated right now across Gaza, but also by hedging bets on its failed recovery and presumed subservience to the global economy. This glaring power asymmetry is the backbone of every “recovery” agenda. The Board of Peace charter reeks of despotism, but perhaps more crucial to the text’s purposeful vacuity is Article 5.2:

The "Board of Peace" may authorize the establishment of accounts as necessary to carry out its mission. The Executive Board shall authorize the institution of controls and oversight mechanisms with respect to budgets, financial accounts, and disbursements, as necessary or appropriate to ensure their integrity.

The over USD $1 billion contribution demanded of member states makes crystalline a plutocracy solely concerned with dividends, not demands of justice. In his address to the World Economic Forum, Kushner said he and his co-conspirators are planning for ‘catastrophic success,’ adding that there is no “Plan B.” We know: the Nakba is always ongoing. His words echo those of Herzl, Ben-Gurion, Dayan, Sharon… for the zionist project to survive, for "Israel" to exist, it necessitates continual extermination of Palestine and its people.

During the presentation, Kushner showed a map of “the Gaza Strip divided into “residential” and “coastal tourism mixed” zones, complete with renderings of high-rise coastal towers. One of the presentation slides included Arabic script written incorrectly in reverse, from left to right, and with disconnected letters.”¹³ In his variation on the theme, Trump took the podium to boast:

"But I said that, you know, this [Gaza] is a great location. It all begins [sic]. You see, I’m a real estate person at heart, and it’s all about location. And I said, look at this location on the sea. Look at this beautiful piece of property. What it could be for so many people. It’ll be so, so great."

The "so many people" have nothing to do with the well-being, the healing of Palestinians and their land, but the voracious speculators who abetted razing the Gaza seafront and its delicate ecology, preparing for their future skyscrapers, boutique hotels, and yacht marinas. Not even the rubble, one word so frequently used to ascertain the enormity of this destruction, is safe from these developers’ fangs; piles of concrete…once daycares, mosques, hospitals, now cratered by Raytheon 5,000-pound GBU-28 "bunker busters" are burgled (in addition to exhuming graves and pirating artifacts and wares) while preventing Palestinians from using what’s left to rebuild, under the pretext of “debris removal.”

Meanwhile, while we are distracted by the obscene parades of unchecked wealth and power in Davos and Mar-A-Lago…it’s critical to not lose sight of the present horrors amidst the repugnant envisioned futures. As Forensic Architecture analyzes, the IOF is terraforming in Rafah to concentrate Palestinians under full military control:

Since December [2025], "Israel" has undertaken groundwork for what seems to be a development site in east Rafah, within the Israeli military-controlled zone. It sits at the intersection of the Morag and Magen Oz corridors, close to the “yellow line”...The area of interest is half a kilometer into "Israel’s" area of control, bound by two military corridors, and near the camp of the Israeli-affiliated “Counter-Terrorism Strike Force,” several military outposts, and former GHF [Gaza Humanitarian Foundation] sites. This environment suggests supervision and control, rather than humanitarianism.

We needn’t particularly track how the “yellow line” of armistice inches deeper into Jabaliya and Beit Lahia under the guise of ‘demolishing Hamas infrastructure,’ or the nuance of the “Project Sunrise” smart cities; the entirety of Gaza, of Palestine, is occupied by the zionist settler colonial project hellbent on totalizing dominance.

When these ‘technocrats’ pitch “opening Rafah,” we must know there is no safety or salvation in the gesture; borders are only opened for the unhindered flows of capital and the next-best Free Economic Zone, not to ease people’s suffering. Egypt, the largest liquid fuels producer and a top natural gas producer in the Eastern Mediterranean, is an integral piece to the East Mediterranean Gas pipeline,¹⁴ the Arab Gas pipeline, and the Arish-Ashkelon pipeline. According to Chevron’s recent announcement, a fourth transmission pipeline must be constructed via Nitzana (an Israeli settlement in the Naqab desert, bordering Egypt), which would drastically raise Leviathan’s production capacity.

This “New Rafah,” at least in these PowerPoint slides, starkly resembles the shoddily-built subdevelopments anywhere in Phoenix, AZ…Costa Mesa, CA…any ‘masterplanned’ community as elemental to this 21st century Manifest Destiny where plenty of genocide enablers work as engineers at Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, or Elbit Systems, building bombs that murdered over 680,000 Palestinians during this current genocide (and counting), and coach their kids’ soccer matches on the weekend.¹⁵

What sort of so-called peace necessitates the decimation and infantilization of an entire population, in lockstep with belligerent billionaires’ seizure of their land and autonomy? How can you lay claims to stolen land, let alone anticipate it thriving, while poisoning and slaughtering its pasts, presents, and futures?

As Andreas Malm writes: “Palestine provides a human vantage point for seeing the truth about capitalist modernity known to most non-human life forms. It’s just one damn nakba after another.”

Zionism’s suicidal spiral of nihilistic hysterical obliteration offers us clear openings to enter, to upend its logics, be it by disrupting the earnings calls, blockading the military cargo shipments, or other tactics of disruption. Our only option is to disobey the billionaire world order for the sake of a free Palestine.

Ending this ceaseless atrocity demands our attunement to both big-picture processes and the fine print of the sales contracts; we must commit to this labor, and our individual abilities and capacities can together upend this heinous status quo and the constellation of complicity.

• 1 In flagrant, tireless violation of Article 49 of the Geneva Conventions (https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.33_GC-IV-EN.pdf).
• 2 According to the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, “The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) has the world’s highest level of contamination by unexploded cluster munition remnants, resulting from aerial attacks carried out by the United States (US) from 1964–1973 amid the Second Indochina War.” From The Conversation: “In 2019, the US Congress estimated that more than 20% of land in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia remained “contaminated” by unexploded ordnance (UXO).” When we consider this imperial debris littering our planet, we can also think of the Trump administration’s 2025 USAID freeze that hampers bomb removal efforts. And ask ourselves–who will clear (heal) Gaza? How, and with what tools and funding?
• ⁴ The World Bank describes the barbarity against Palestinians in Gaza as “repeated rounds of conflict, especially the current one centered in Gaza,”; ‘hostilities’; “a sharp demographic contraction as a result of the ongoing conflict”—the word “genocide” is not used in this report.
• ⁵ Mohammed Mhawish explains, “[The] plan does more than sequence withdrawals and define phases. It locks in the zonal map created by the war, dividing Gaza into areas of unequal access and control (by defining where Palestinians may live and rebuild, for instance).”
• ⁶ A January 22, 2026 headline from AP: “Baby dies from cold in Gaza as leaders meet to discuss Trump’s Board of Peace.”
• ⁷ Put succinctly by Zaha Hassan on Dec. 5, 2025: “The humanitarian operations of the Board of Peace will be integrated into Israeli military systems; like the ISF, the board will not replace Israeli control. In addition, the same private military contractor, UG Solutions, that supplied mercenary forces for the much-criticized Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which resulted in hundreds of desperate Palestinian aid seekers being killed in what the UN described as a “death trap,” is currently recruiting candidates to provide security at new distribution sites along the invisible “yellow line” separating the green and red zones.” 
• ⁸ Not to be confused with the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, which “accepted money from a family that finances illegal Israeli settlements via the earnings of a convicted felon.”
• ⁹ And honorary patron of the Jewish National Fund UK.
• ¹⁰ Gabay’s career includes roles in the Prospectus Department of Israel’s SEC, the investment banking division of Bank Leumi, and Aroundtown SA (with a portfolio of realty assets ~$32 billion).
• ¹¹ As of May 28, 2025, the Congressional Research Service outlines: “U.S. support for Israel and its security; shared strategic goals in the Middle East; and historical ties dating from U.S. support for the creation of Israel in 1948. To date, the United States has provided Israel $174 billion (current, or non-inflation-adjusted, dollars) in bilateral assistance and missile defense funding.” Granted, this does not account for all of the “Friends of” nonprofits, private donations, fundraisers, and shadow slushes that go towards the entrenchment of the zionist settler colonial project.
• ¹² Moreover, “Non-Israeli companies with a large stake in the Israeli energy sector, through their minority stakes in the Tamar gas field, include the Abu Dhabi state-owned company Mubadala Petroleum and the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR).” The UAE and Azerbaijan have accepted Trump's invitation to join the Board of Peace.
• ¹³ The January 2026 version of the Board of Peace’s charter includes: “Article 13.1: Official Language–The official language of the Board of Peace shall be English.” Or, as Fady Joudah says, English is the language that genocides me.
• ¹⁴ According to AFSC, “The EMG pipeline, also operated and partially owned by Chevron, connects Israel and Egypt, passing west of the Gaza shoreline. Regardless of its exact location—kept secret for security reasons—this pipeline is not under Israeli jurisdiction, and any economic gain in this area without Palestinian agreement is illegal under international law.”
• ¹⁵ This is about what your neighbor does for a living.